PISTILiIiATE FLOWKK P 
BI-SEXUAL B 
The pistillate flower, P. has tew or no stamens 
or male organs and produces no polen, therctore must 
have a bi-sexual or male flower set every third row 
so that wind or insects wili carry pollen to it. 
ed, it seems passing strange that the science 
of plant breeding should be questioned by a 
doubt; but the Horticultural World, as well 
as the terrestrial, moves, and every enthusi- 
astic, enterprising fruit grower recognizes the 
fact and profits by it and so leads the multi- 
tude of doubting followers who wonder at his 
work and success. 
Tillage and nurture have been practiced for 
centuries and have greatly improved the con- 
ditions of primal nature, but the science of 
plant breeding which has been practiced 
scarcely the brief space of a man's lifetime has 
worked a revolution in horticultural art. It 
has not only increased the amount and im- 
proved the qual.ity of field and garden products 
but it is constantly adding new and improved 
varieties and even new kinds altogether. 
'The Webber, the new citrus fruit which will 
grow many degrees north of either the orange 
or lemon, is the product of a plant marriage 
between the hedge orange of Japan and the 
sweet orange of Florida, and is also a creation 
of the plant breeder's art; likewise in the "tan- 
gelo," the result of a union of tangerine orange 
and the grape fruit, we find the desirable 
characteristics of both parents. 
One cannot learn of the work of Mr. Luther 
Burbank, the justly called Horticultural Wiz- 
ard, without being amazed as well as inter- 
ested. Into a large showy flower having an 
unpleasant odor he puts a delicate, fragrant 
scent; he expels the pit from a plum, causing 
its place to be taken by a "substance, rich, 
juicy and sweet;" he unites in a new fruit the 
California dewberry and the Siberian rasp- 
berry and gives the world the primus berry, 
Bl-sexual, B Perfect flower. The stamens or 
male organs surround the central cone of pistils, eacK 
one having an anther which furnishes the pollen. This 
Is carried by insects or the wind to the pistillates. 
The bi-sexual varieties will fruit without the presence 
of other \-arIetIes. 
The sexual organs of tlie strawberry enlarged to 
show the process of fertilization. The anther of the 
stamen bursting, letting the pollen containing the 
male life germ "a" fall out, lodging on the stigma of 
the pistil "a," where the life germ of male is carried 
by a tube through the style "b" to seed pod or ovaries 
"c," where the female germ is located, and here the 
two life germs are merged into one in the seed (egg). 
It Is substantially the same process in all animal llte. 
which is nothing less than a marvel of crea- 
tion. The fundamental principal in Mr. Bur- 
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